SOME THOUGHT ABOUT THE FLORIDA PRIMARY

                The Fox pundits complained about the negative ads but they are part of the problem.   They would run back and forth saying Mitt said this, or Newt said this, what is your reaction?

                I too am tired of the negative ads, all mostly half truths.   I was glad when Romney gave his victory speech he didn’t go negative.   I thought it was a good tactic on Mitt’s part to have his wife talk to the crowd and ...

ARE PEOPLE MORE HONEST NOW THAN IN THE FIFTIES?

                In my opinion the answer is no!  Dishonesty is a large part of the human condition, just like hate.   We can’t get away from it.   It’s in our DNA.   But thank God for our brains.   It is our brains that inhibit the intrinsic predisposition to be dishonest and hate others.   (Don’t try and tell me you have never been tempted to steal.)

                You may think I’m going over the top, but I ...

Prophet’s Prey – By SAM BROWER

A Review

Sub title

My Seven-year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the

Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints.

Preface by Jon Krakauer

            Prophet’s Prey shows us Sam ...

REMEMBER JIMMY CARTER

                Remember the Alamo.   Remember the Maine.   Remember Pearl Harbor.   Remember 9-11.  

                The trouble is Americans tend to forget and forgive.   I was 8 years old Dec. 7, 1941, and remember the day very well.   But for many of our children and grandchildren it is ancient history.   If it were not for movies like Tora, Tora, Tora, and Saving Private Ryan, many of today’s generation would not only be not interested but ...

DIGUSTED

            Yeah!  I’m disgusted with the Super Pac ads against Romney and Gingrich.   They are so full of distorted facts and outright lies that none can be depended upon as truth.   Even ads defending Obama are joining in the mudslinging against Romney.  

            In Romney’s case his opponents suggest it is a sin to be successful.   The Obama people are expected to portray Romney ...

Loves Times Three – A Review

                I wasn’t going to read Loves Times Three because I was pretty well saturated with Mormon polygamy after 17 years of a steady diet of muckraking and iconoclasting.   I wanted to move on to something else like the impact of Islam on the American way of life.    But I am glad I read Love Times Three, thanks to Doris Hanson.   Doris had asked me to appear on her television program, What Love Is This, ...

 IS THE WORLD DRIVEN BY HATE?

            A paradox:  The history of civilization is a history of wars.   You would think that a civilized people would find means other than war like mediation to resolve differences.   The Romans and Greeks are the foundations of what our democracy was patterned after.   However, the Greek Hellenistic Era was the result of warriors like Phillip of Macedonia and his son Alexander.   The Roman Empire was won and preserved by ...

GERMAN AMERICAN BUND  AND THE ISLAMIC PREDOMINANT SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

                What is the difference between the German American Bund and the hundreds of madrassas (schools for the study of the Koran) that are popping up all over the United States? 

                The Bund numbered 50 to 60 thousand Americans in the 1930s about the time Adolf Hitler took power.   The incredulous purpose of the Bund was  to  “preserve Germanic culture in the USA through history, language, and folk art both for ...

GERMAN AMERICAN BUND  AND THE ISLAMIC PREDOMINANT SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

                What is the difference between the German American Bund and the hundreds of madrassas (schools for the study of the Koran) that are popping up all over the United States? 

                The Bund numbered 50 to 60 thousand Americans in the 1930s about the time Adolf Hitler took power.   The incredulous purpose of the Bund was  to  “preserve Germanic culture in the USA through history, language, and folk art both for ...

Why Do Women Convert to Islam?

            An even more compelling question would be, why do American women convert to Islam?  There is no easy answer – but I think there is an answer.   And the answer is not spiritual but psychological and cultural.   It’s not that the Muslim god, Allah, is more believable or benevolent, or powerful than the Christian god, Jehovah. It goes far deeper than that.   I am convinced that the same circumstances which induce Americans boys ...

A WARNING ABOUT ISLAM

                Following is a letter authored by my friend, David Bishop, to his brothers, sons and daughters.   I was so impressed with the context that I asked his permission to put it on the blog.   David is a retired Capt. from the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office and has one of the best minds I have had the good fortune to be associated with.   While our politicians are sitting on their thumbs Islam is making inroads into America that is far ...

The Emancipation of Mollie O’Neil

                No, she is not a carrot-headed Irish Lassie.   Her hair color, on the bright side is chestnut, otherwise auburn, depending upon the light.   Her eyes are brown, a deep rich brown but once again, if the light is right, the cornea, that part of the eye that captures light waves, is emerald green which radiates  through the iris.  

                But none of this is observable as she cautiously worked her way up the graveled lane, ...

ISLAM’S INHUMANITY TOWARDS WOMEN

A Book Review

            There are poorly written books, books that deceive, scholastic books and well written, interesting books.   But rarely does a book come along that is so honest and powerful that it challenges the mind, changes perceptions and beliefs– and at the same time tugs at the heartstrings.

                INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Muslim woman and refugee from Somalia, is just such ...

Time Magazine:  Mitt Romney on the Cover

                Also on the cover is the title of Time’s article about Mitt:  “Why don’t they like me?”

                In this short essay I am taking exception to Time Magazine and its article about Mitt Romney.   But first let me qualify myself.   I am not a Mormon or member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – although I was one at one time and therefore acquainted with LDS Church teachings and ...

Automobile Language

                You have heard of “body language,” well, have you noticed that when an automobile becomes an extension of the body you can observe “automobile language?”  Put another way, the way an automobile is driven and treated tells you something about the driver.

                My wife has a wholesale floral business.   She receives boxes of flowers four days a week on trucks from Florida, Texas and California.    I usually meet the trucks from California on the “on ramp” of ...

Happy Thanksgiving

            We Llewellyn’s have been a bit busy with Shauna’s flower business so I haven’t had the time to update my blog.    It is an hour before the big meal, Green Bay and Baltimore are playing, so while I watch the football game I will punch out a few words between plays.   In the mean time I hope all that reads this comment is munching on turkey with family and friends.   My thoughts will be with ...

Our Amazing Brain

            You will notice that in the title of this essay I used the word “brain” as opposed to “mind.”  That’s because the “mind” is a product or phenomenon of the brain.

            There are many people who disagree with me and see the mind as being separate from the biological body.   It ...

Embryo Rights vs. Women’s Rights

A QUESTION OF LIFE AND HUMANITY

                It’s a passionate, emotional debate, so much so that a recent vote by the state of Mississippi declared that human life begins at conception, implying that “personhood,” begins at conception.   But does it really?

                Biologists unanimously agree with the Mississippi voters that once the sperm cell merges with the egg and the DNA of the mother and father mix, life begins.   The term “zygote,” meaning ...

What Inspired Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?

                The Gettysburg Address was Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech.   And as speeches go, it was one of history’s very best, if not the best  – brief, excellent syntax, memorable, deeply profound and moving.   But most of all it was written so that both the common and sophisticated man could understand it.

                Historians tell us that in composing the speech Lincoln looked for some inspiration, something that would mentor him.   And what was the source of that ...

I Am A Secular Conservative!

                How can that be?  How can someone be both secular and conservative?  Well, for me it is easy and natural.   Here’s why.

                But first let me tell a little story.   The other day I visited my prostate doctor for a routine checkup.   My PSA was up and we discussed a third biopsy which I wanted to avoid if possible, not so much because of the pain but the abject humiliation.